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Anticosti island, early fox-farm on 16 



Arabi sheep, (see also under Karakul sheep) characteristics of 81 



derivation of name 83 



Arctic, transportation in 113 



Arizona, otter in 100 



Asia, karakul sheep industry in 81 



beaver, production of, in Ill 



fox skins produced annually in 132 



fur production of 186, 188, 189 



mink skins produced in 91 



range of foxes in 20 



Astrakhan, derivation of name 83 



furs, reference to 7 



where obtained 81 



Athabaska Landing, conveyance of reindeer to 115 



Athabaska River coimtry, foxes of 29 



Attu island, foxes on 69 



Australia, fox skins produced annually in 132 



fur exports 128, 129 



fur production of 186, 189 



fur-seal skins from, 195 



use of rabbit skins in 65 



Austria-Hungary, fur production of 188 



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Baby lamb furs, reference to 7 



where obtained 81 



Bailey, Vernon, quoted re otter 100 



Baltimore, consumption of muskrats in 110, 164 



Barrow point, reindeer at 153 



Bateson, Prof. W., quoted re colour phases in foxes 23 



Bear, Alaska, reference to 7 



Bear skins sold on London market 156 



Beaver, domestication of 150 



farming of 112 



food of 112 



habitat of 4, 111 



number shipped to P. E. Island 1912-1913 31 



possibility of ranching of 112 



price of, per pair 112 



skins of, value of 112 



stock from Dept. of Lands, Forests and Mines, Ontario 112 



time of mating of 112 



uses of Ill 



Beetz, Johann, article on game by 182 



breeding of foxes by 15 



on food for foxes 43 



Belgium, rabbit skins from 128 



Beltsville, Md., experimental farm at 88 



Settles, James, blue fox farmer 70 



